| At last we have someone in Govt. with a backbone and courage to speak the truth. IIT-s are not institutions churning out graduates like the degree colleges in Bihar where one could buy the degrees without attending the classes!! UNFORTUNATELY IT*S NOT ONLY BIHAR BUT OTHER PLACES AS WELL. AND THESE DAYS IT COMES CHAPER FROM US/AUSTRALIAN/UK UNIVERSITIES THAN BIHAR AND THAT TOO WITHOUT ATTENDING ANY CLASSES. If we had similar bureaucrats and experts to counter Arjun Singh in his reservation moves for OBC-s in PG courses in medicine, IIM and IIT-s, the Country's sagging image could have been saved. The SC/ST/OBC-s themselves are at a discount and loss, as they would be weeded out at the preliminary stages itself in placement procedures, since it is evident that they got admitted not on merit but reservation. And in any future job prospects too they would expose themselves as not meritorious candidates but "reserved" ones!! Arjun Singh and earlier VP Singh did a great disservice to these OBC categories, as they could be eligible only for idling in Govt. jobs!!
--- On Sat, 9/6/08, Dr.V.N. Sharma <vnsh44@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Dr.V.N. Sharma <vnsh44@gmail.com>
Subject: New IITs are a disaster, says PM's scientific adviser
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Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 9:17 AM
I fully agree with the views expressed by Prof.C.N.R. Rao, Scientific advisor to PM and my Guru at IITK. The fate of the new IITs and their students can be easily imagined when we are not finding good and qualified teachers for the regular colleges. How will the new IITs will manage the teachers and the teaching aids and from where. This has always remained a big question in my mind because the University's vocational courses (a bit new in nature) are managed through guest faculty and that too not from the same discipline/ subject. Dr.V.N.Sharma New IITs are a disaster, says PM's scientific adviser DEMEANING STANDARDS: Six new IITs have started operations from the current academic session. New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's initiative to establish eight new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has drawn flak from his own scientific adviser C.N.R. Rao, who said on Friday that the opening of so many new IITs is a "disaster". "Opening so may IITs in one year is a disaster. I had no idea that so many IITs have already come up in our country," he told reporters on the sidelines of an event at the Federation of Indian Cambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). Six new IITs - in Orissa, Bihar, Rajasthan, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh - have started operations from the current academic session. India now has 13 IITs. "This is not a play. To open IITs, you need proper planning. There are makeshift campuses and some are even attending classes in old IITs," said the renowned scientist. "I came to know about this development after the institutes admitted students. This is sad and I have told the prime minister and even the human resource development minister (Arjun Singh) about this. I am dissatisfied with the developments," said Rao, a visiting professor at Cambridge University. IITs are premier engineering colleges of the country. Manmohan Singh has already announced that India will have eight new IITs, including the six opened this year, to boost engineering and technology education. |
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